{"id":24795,"date":"2017-12-17T14:02:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T22:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24795"},"modified":"2017-12-17T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T22:02:58","slug":"rose-fever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/rose-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Rose Fever, Tournament of Roses Not Just an LA Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/tourneve.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Pasadena Festival has International Appeal<\/h2>\n<p>As one of the most watched parades in the world, the Tournament of Roses &#8211; Rose Parade is California&#8217;s best tourism promotion to keep visitors coming during the shoulder season. The festival boasts mostly sunshine during its storied 129-year history, reflectings its origins. Around 1890 a parade club founder, Professor Charles F. Holder, announced at a meeting:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In New York, people are buried in snow. Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let&#8217;s hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/pasadena-tournament-of-roses.html\">See Rose Parade Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>The Rose Parade is more than the parade, itself. There&#8217;s a band festival, horse festival, pre-parade Deco Week in which the public can volunteer to decorate floats, and post-parade float viewing.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deco Week December 26-31, 2017 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/pasadena-rose-parade-floats.html\">Sign up to decorate a float<\/a> or help with tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Band Fest December 29, 2017 Stadium seating at this ticketed event allows guests to watch parade marching bands perform.<\/li>\n<li>Equefest December 29, 2017 Features many of the world&#8217;s finest horses appearing on Colorado Boulevard on the Big Day.<\/li>\n<li>Rose Bowl Game January 1, 2018 includes Rose Bowl Bash Dec.31 and Hall of Fame Induction Dec.30, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>Post Parade Float Viewing January 1, 1 p.m. &#8211; January 2, 2018, 4 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>International Highlights<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>China Airlines, Kiwanis International, Lions Club International and global companies have floats in the parade this year.<\/li>\n<li>Band participants include Marching Koalas of Dangar, New South Wales, Australia; Banda De Musica Herberto Lopez of Republic of Panama;\u00a0 Burlington Teen Tour Band from Ontario, Canada; and Kyoto Tachibana High School Green Band from\u00a0Kyoto, Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasadena Festival has International Appeal As one of the most watched parades in the world, the Tournament of Roses &#8211; Rose Parade is California&#8217;s best tourism promotion to keep visitors coming during the shoulder season. The festival boasts mostly sunshine during its storied 129-year history, reflectings its origins. Around 1890 a parade club founder, Professor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}